Mushrooms are seasonal fungi, which occupy diverse niches in nature in the forest ecosystem.
They predominantly occur during the rainy season and also during spring when the snow melts.
Mushrooms are in fact the 'fruit' of the underground fungal mycelium They are macromycetes forming macroscopic fruiting bodies such as agarics, boletes, jelly fungi, coral fungi,stinkhorns, bracket fungi, puffballs and bird’s nest fungi.
They are fleshy, subfleshy, or sometimes leathery and woody and bear their fertile surface either on lamellae or lining the tubes, opening out by means of pores.